I do believe most of the commentary here on this thread is getting it wrong.

We do not believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country. But we do believe in opportunity. We believe in a country where hard work pays off and responsibilities are rewarded and everybody is getting a fair shot and everybodys doing their fair share.

As a matter of fact, Obama is right here. The problem lies not with what he said, but what he believes. He actually espoused what most conservatives believe. However, his actions are the opposite of what words come out of his mouth. "Everybody's doing their fair share?" What about the huge expansion of welfare rolls since he took office? "Everybody is getting a fair shot?" How do you explain affirmative action policies and the biases of your justice department?

It's not what he said that is offensive here, it's how contrary what he said is from what he believes.

This country succeeds because there is no system of self serving avarice that seeks to stack the system so only winners excel.

NO, this country succeeds because of the American spirit fiercely Independence and the “Ambition” that brings out the best work ethic in the world and enables any person to move from being dirt poor to the middle class or with unbelievable goals to become among the richest.

There is nothing that gets in the way of the American Spirit to Achieve.

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posted on 10/05/2012 10:58:01 AM PDT
by Vendome
(Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)

I have always believed that Obama’s world view is that of a sophomore university student who has taken a few sociology classes and think they have the answers to all the world's problems. Of course, in his case, he came to that point probably already having had a fair amount of indoctrination into the philosophy of his liberal parents, and uncle ‘Frank’.

The bottom line is that in the America that most of us remember and love, it is possible for anyone to become one of those ‘few at the top’. The reality is that when people reaching for the top don't make it all the way, they wind up populating the middle class. That's a good thing, but Obama doesn't understand it. His world view is, like so many on the left, one in which there are only Tiny Tims and Scrooges.

“....And his completely, brain-dead supporters go along with this jackass without even realizing the stupidity of the argument theyve bought into....”

Right on!! Just another classic example of just how debilitating the disease of liberalism is on the human mind.
It rots out the ability to think objectively and logically. Basically turning them into zombies, mentally speaking.
It has no known cure. The sooner this is realized, the sooner the solution will be realized. There are not enough padded celss for all of em though.

That just reads like a weird comment.No one is entitled to a job. Check. No one is entitled to handouts. Check. No one is entitled to this or that freebie. Check.

But "success" is something that someone achieves. Something they achieve by inspiration, or perspiration, or some times just by good fortune. It is nothing that is thrust into their hands... Now the Pres wants to be overseer of what he perceives to be acceptable measures of a person's 'success'. Marxists are all the same. Useless, covetous, haters and dividers. A pox on all of them.

I don’t care what he says he believes, the only people he’s helping are the people who support him. What has he done that’s helped the middle class? There are fewer middle class jobs, higher taxes, and rising costs. These are not helping the middle class, which pays the taxes so that Obama has money to hand out to his supporters.

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posted on 10/05/2012 11:42:32 AM PDT
by popdonnelly
(The first priority is get Obama out of the White House.)

Who the bleep is this “WE “ doing all the “ believing “—————show of hands please. Sounds like a tent meeting of a bunch of retread marxists. Do the Obamaphonies realise he expects them to “share” some effort to pay up for their phones?

It wouldn’t make a difference. They are more concerned that their “messiah” is being attacked and maligned than they are in seeing reason and fact. This is one case where they’ll have to “find out the stove is hot” all by themselves.

so it grows from the middle class, built not the top down, last time I checked it was the top rich guys who made the jobs.

Obama is so far out there radical that he has no clue about life, the real world, the economy or even how to create jobs, hell he has no idea about the constitution due ot his radical teachings and brainwashing.

And we have this radical left wing man because of the media lying all the time

Everyone “is entitled to success,” IF they earn it.
NOBODY is guaranteed success.

But, in Obamaworld, IF you earn success, and begin to reap the rewards of that success, you ARE NOT “entitled” to those rewards; that wouldn’t be “fair,” because “You didn’t build that.”

In Obamaworld, you can latch onto all the opportunities you can find, take all the risks you can stand, put out all of the effort you can muster, and reap all the rewards you’re due, EXCEPT that WHEN you do so, there’ll be Uncle Sam at your door with his hand out intent on keeping things “fair.”

Obama has NO problem with people building things; he has HUGE issues with those same people KEEPING very much of the reward they earned in the process.

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